If you see a large increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where this sort of an option is offered. Regrettably, that's something rather frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all cloud hosting accounts. It will allow you to block addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, since you shall use an intuitive interface - you just have to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added within the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range as well. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with no more thana couple of clicks and you will not have any difficulties to do that even if that is your first web hosting account. Once you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just have to choose the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be ready. To limit the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not input anything within the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.